Out of the earth (Detail) 2007 37.0 x 17.0 cm Tapestry of cotton, silk, viscose, banana paper. Decomposition by sun, rain, earth, earth organisms. Stitching

I have always been interested in patterns and systems in the natural environment. Water moves through our lives, often unseen, like warp threads in a tapestry. Disrupt the natural pattern and something else happens, revealing unseen connections, threads and patterns. Out of the earth as a tapestry, spent much of it time under the soil evolving into something else, at one time it was under three feet of floodwater. Leaf litter and rootlets were entangled in the threads when it was dug up. It speaks of water that flows, changing as it moves from sky to earth, earth to plant, plant to animal, animal to human, human to artifact. A changing, evolving thing that gives an hidden structure to life.

The eleventh hour 2007 Type C print

‘Time is the substance from which i am Heather Kerr made. ’Jorge Luis Borges. ‘Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.’ Douglas Adams